Yanks lose second straight to Blue Jays

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The Yanks dropped a 14-inning heartbreaker, 3-2, to the Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon despite a stellar showing from Andy Pettitte and the bullpen.

Pettitte went 7 2/3 innings and gave up two runs on five hits with a season-high 10 strikeouts to three walks to get a no-decision. He was denied in his bid for his 200th win as a Yankee (and 237th overall), even though he threw a gem. Old reliable also tied David Wells for 52nd place on the all-time strikeout list with his 2,201st punchout.

Andy (Can I) Pettitte has now allowed two runs or less in nine starts this year, more than any other pitcher in the AL.

Joba, Marte, D-Rob and CHoP combined to throw 5 1/3 innings of four-hit no-run relief with six strikeouts to four walks before Chad Gaudin gave up the winning single to Aaron Hill in the 14th. However, you can’t pin this one on Gaudin as the offense wasn’t producing a goddamn thing. You could make the argument that Girardi should’ve used Mo instead of Gaudin, but I have no problem with using Chad in that situation during a June 5th game…it’s not like it was Game 7 of the World Series.

Swish Dog made a couple of ridiculous catches in right field, just throwing that out there.

Girardi:

Our relievers threw the ball great, only gave up one run in basically 6 1/3, seven innings. So did theirs, unfortunately we didn’t win today…(Losing is) never any fun, the guys are playing hard, but we’ll just bounce back tomorrow.

“Red Hot” Robbie Cano is now 0 for his last 12 with four strikeouts. What’s more disturbing is that Tex, A-Rod, Cano and Posada combined to go 2-for-24 on Saturday, with Tex donning the platinum sombrero. It was the second five-strikeout game of Tex’ career, with the other coming on August 18, 2003 — his rookie campaign.

Tex:

We’re not seeing the ball well, he kept us off-balance. He’s (Ricky Romero) a good pitcher, you try to battle off him. He pitched really well today…Both teams, the offenses weren’t really clicking. So we knew every opportunity we had we wanted to take advantage of it but we just couldn’t do it.

What can you do about Tex and his laughable .215/.328/.370 line? Wait it out? Bench him? Move him down the lineup? Get him a few nights with Kate Hudson? My suggestion would be to switch him and Cano in the lineup, so the batting order would look something like this:

JeetSwish DogCanoA-RodTexPosadaCervelliGrandyGardner

Shuffling this slumping bastard to fifth wouldn’t be too much of a slap in his face and I think it’s just crazy enough to work. Something needs to be done, the Bombers have scored just three runs over 23 innings in this series and, if you take away those games against the sub-par Indians and Orioles, haven’t done very much scoring at all.

The team got its only offense Saturday via a two-run homer from Jeter in the fifth frame. Jeter finished 2-for-6 and now has 266 hits against Toronto, the most by any player in history. He also recorded his 1,109th RBI, which pushes him past Hitman for ninth place on the Yankees’ all-time list.

Oh well, you can’t win ‘em all. Plus, the Rangers beat the Rays so the Yanks are still just two back of the division lead, but these Jays are now creeping and are 1 1/2 behind the Yanks. The Red Cox, who are mired in a pitcher’s duel with the O’s as I type this, can move into a tie with Toronto with a win.

The Yanks, with a burnt-out bullpen mind you, have Javy going against Brandon Morrow tomorrow at 1 in the finale of this craptacular three-game set. LET’S GO YANKS!!!Share this post:RSS FeedTweet ThisShare on FaceBookDigg ItStumble Upon ThisReddit ShareYahoo! Share

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